Hex Kitty - Hex Gear R40

Hello and welcome everyone at the next project. This project is something what I was waiting for looong time :-D Almost one year but here it is! The awesome Hex Gear R40 from. Big thanks goes to Nate & Hans for developing this case and for supporting me with it.

This project is girl themed - Hello Kitty, so white and pink are the main colors

Plan:

Some parts of the case have to be redesigned little bit. These new parts will be laser cutted. Cables from PSU will be cutted to exact length and sleeved. Overall alignment of appearance and of course the installation of a water loop on the graphics cards and CPU.

Find a nice mATX motherboard that holds such cooling, it is very hard and therefore also for me was the clear choice the beautiful R40.

Base of the case holds four aluminum profiles, which have a combined 3 kg. The entire case then 15 kg. Case has soooo much advantages and possibilities. Mainly possibility of placing 240 and 360 radiators.

Progress so far is none, but as I said, I have a case at home, and all the hardware. I will add more very soon! I will start with putting case together because it comes flat packed.
I already started with putting it together

I would like to say that I completed the entire case, but unfortunately I did not With my plan one part of the case must be redesigned - you will see in this update..
Case is shipped flat packed so only unpacking takes some time, because all parts are individually wrapped very carefully. :thumb:

Here you can see some parts, screws, etc. and manual. If you would like to look closer here in PDF http://bit.ly/R40Manual .

The main frame is hold by 4 aluminium profiles. Each weighing 0,75 kg.

4x M8 thread used for the four large screws that are visible on the front and back.

These four large screws holding colored plexiglass and metal front part.

Hex Gear logo on the front panel.

Plexiglas (color interchangeable - official shop offers a great variety of colors) and metal parts for I/O of MB etc.

Plexiglass is cutted by laser, so it is absolutely accurate and cut is clean and smooth.

I think this is how it could belong together

These plexi parts are very clever thing! Holds top and down metal plates perfectly in place without any vibrations.

Two parts for the assembly of 360 and 240 radiator and PSU. These two parts are interchangeable, so it is up to the individual whether you want to have a PSU + 240 radiator up or down.

Outdoor parts, two of the same include up and down. Large one is the rear sidepanel

The main part for mounting motherboard, discs, pump ...

Two small long only serves as a cover of plexiglass holders of the same size. The big one is for disks and small one mostly for the pump.

In progress!

Almost completed but at this point I stopped. I want to hide one tube (from radiator to pump) behind the fans on the radiator. To make it nice and hide the tube is necessary a few extra mm. It was less then 10 mm, but I want be sure and have more space for maybe another combination..

Quick render of new part .. I will be lasercutting more parts for this project, but about them in next updates!

To lasercut the new parts I had to wait a little longer than usual, but here it is The first part is the upper part of the casefor mounting the radiator 240 (displacement of 10 mm) and installation for PSU. Redrawing the part takes a long time, but the reward is sweet - everything fits exactly

Another part is an holder for mounting DDC pumps . And I made few pcs more for future projects

HEX-GEAR project so that hexagons should be everywhere!

And now for the installation of a new piece, which was seamless because the outer dimensions are identical to the original.

The only change is the 10 mm offset of radiator and two openings for possible wiring - hexagons

Bridge to connect two blocks of graphics cards. It is set up as a series connection as well as parallel.

Some fittings for this pink beast Not all, just few from every type.

Adapters for easy bending. I always think about bending. "I will finally do bends!" but in previous projects I always choose angled fittings and no bends.. But we will see in this project Maybe is right time for bends.

Here you can see offset of radiator

The pump is mounted in the holder ..

..and then both mounted in a case

I have to redesign this logo I would not survive if it should be turned upside down.

I will add more probably next weekend And a big reward for someone who will guess what this is!

Update comes a little longer than I'd planned But I had to finish another project for ASUS CZ and now I can fully concentrate on Hello Kitty. How about all of you guessed the last picture in previous update was Hello Kitty front panel

The front part, according to the remeasurement of the original and laser cutted from 1.5 mm steel.

And on the chassis. The front part is accurate and everything fits perfectly This is the style I like, so next time I would like to go to a computer with more stainless steel parts without any color

And it was to be painted. On the back side which was pretty empty I decided to sign Bitspower

All degreased and ready for filler

Hello Kitty front panel with the filler, only white color missing

Everything fitted back into the case

Pink background is a little darker than I thought. Respectively, it is not such as pastel pink liquid, so either something darker fluid or paint the accent pack in same pink as pastel fluis is..We'll see.

Update comes a little longer than I'd planned But I had to finish another project for ASUS CZ and now I can fully concentrate on Hello Kitty. How about all of you guessed the last picture in previous update was Hello Kitty front panel

The front part, according to the remeasurement of the original and laser cutted from 1.5 mm steel.

And on the chassis. The front part is accurate and everything fits perfectly This is the style I like, so next time I would like to go to a computer with more stainless steel parts without any color

And it was to be painted. On the back side which was pretty empty I decided to sign Bitspower

All degreased and ready for filler

Hello Kitty front panel with the filler, only white color missing

Everything fitted back into the case

Pink background is a little darker than I thought. Respectively, it is not such as pastel pink liquid, so either something darker fluid or paint the accent pack in same pink as pastel fluis is..We'll see.